Asbury Park councilman James Keady plans to resign

Asbury Park councilman James Keady said he will step down from the council at the end of this month, six months before his four-year term is up, and will not seek re-election, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press.

The report said Keady, 37, who directs the nonprofit Educating for Justice company, won his first term on the five-member City Council in 2005. He often criticized the waterfront redevelopment plan, which had been put in place about three years before he was elected.